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. Sharing Across Accounts It's all fine to say that every account is segregated from all other accounts. It's nice to know that your stuff is safe from the prying eyes of your co-workers or family. | . Sharing Across Accounts It s all fine to say that every account is segregated from all other accounts. It s nice to know that your stuff is safe from the prying eyes of your co-workers or family. But what about collaboration What if you want to give some files or folders to another account holder You can t just open up someone else s Home folder and drop it in there. Yes every account holder has a Home folder all in the Users folder on your hard drive . But if you try to open anybody else s Home folder you ll see a tiny red icon superimposed on almost every folder inside telling you Look but don t touch. Fortunately there are a couple of wormholes between accounts Figure 12-13 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION Shared Data Files My wife and my eight-year-old kid share my Mac. Over the years we ve amassed a fabulous collection of MP3 files but at the moment I m the only one who sees them in iTunes. This business of separate environments for every account holder is all well and good but what about when we want to access the same files like our iTunes library The problem is that the iTunes library is stored in the Music folder of just one person. Fortunately the solution is easy enough. Whoever is the administrator probably your eight-year-old should move the iTunes folder currently in somebody s Music folder to the Users Shared folder. Now it s available to everybody. At this point each account holder can log in fire up iTunes choose iTunes Preferences Advanced and click the Change button to choose the relocated iTunes Music folder in the Shared folder. From now on each person will be able to see and access the entire library of iTunes tunes but will still enjoy the flexibility to build individual playlists. The Shared folder. Sitting in the Users folder is one folder that doesn t correspond to any particular person Shared. Everybody can freely access this folder inserting and extracting files without restriction. It s the common ground among all the account holders on

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